III. Reports from Committees:
A. Executive Committee:
1. E. Seaver reported that some programs still
need to send their Illinois Professional Teaching Standards Matrices to
his office. He will be working
with the Research & Assessment Committee to review them.

2. A. Buehler reported on the Diversity Index Report.
An aggregate report was sent to all CITC members and a report containing
results for
each program was sent to the deans of the four colleges. In general,
the results were less than encouraging. For example, regarding disabilities
the report shows about one tenth of our placements were in districts reporting
16% or greater disability populations. The current measure is of
the building diversity and not of the actual classroom where the student
teacher was placed. There will be a need to look further at the results
and
consider what actions and additional data will be needed.

Discussion included the difference between the state diversity index and
for the NIU region, the differences between the districts and the schools
and the expenses involved in placements being made in a wider area.
This will need to be continued on the unit assessment level as well.

In regard to the Exit Survey conducted last spring asking student teachers,
cooperating teachers and university supervisors to evaluate student
performance based on the Illinois Professional Teaching Standards, Core
Technology and Language Arts Standards, again a report has been
distributed to CITC members and the four certification deans. In
general the results were very positive, which is an excellent reflection
on the
preparation we are providing our students in their various programs.
Also, this survey will be an item for review by the unit assessment
committee.

B. Curriculum Committee: First meeting scheduled
for 9/24/03

C. Research and Assessment: First meeting scheduled for
9/26/03
Larry Johannessen reported that this committee will be focusing on the
Standards Matrices reviews and on NCATE Standard 1: Candidate
Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions.

D. Committee on Policy and Procedures:
A. Windelborn reported that a “Contemporary Experience Questionnaire” was
sent out by N. Stahl to develop an understanding of how NIU
teacher educators view this concept. A report on the
criteria and descriptions will be forthcoming. This committee will
also be doing a language
review of the CITC By Laws.

E. External Communications: A convening meeting
was held 9/17/03 and the first regularly scheduled meeting will be
10/8/03.

F. At this point the Unit Assessment Committee
was discussed. A request for volunteers for a joint CITC and CAPCE
committee was made. D.
Walker and A. Windelborn will join this committee to develop a unit plan
to be in place by the end of the fall semester, 2003. Date, time
and place
for this committee will be announced.

G. Ad Hoc Committees: S. Conklin described the
basic needs of the following committees and requested volunteers:

1. Technology Committee: for the purpose
of assessing the technology section of the Core Professional Teaching Standards.
T. VanLaarhoven
will be convening this committee.

2. Conceptual Framework Committee: to review
the draft prepared by L. Elish-Piper based on the literature connection
and to be tied to the
Unit Assessment Plan. E. Seaver will work with the Unit Assessment
Committee to condense and format the draft to be brought to CITC.

3. Portfolio Committee: to survey programs
to see what is being done, measure dispositions and develop common areas
for unit and programs to
be tied into the Unit Assessment Plan. J.D. Bowers will convene this
committee.

4. Professional Education Committee: referred
to the Executive Committee to develop guidelines including the Assessment
of Professional
Teaching Test results and their implications for NIU, to overlap with the
Technology Committee and to include the Content Area Test results.
This could include feedback from the P-20 Summit meetings.

5. Endorsements Committee: The four deans
will solicit people to be on this committee. A. Buehler will convene
this committee. (Please also
see Section IV. Old Business: A. Transcript Evaluation.)

IV. Old Business:
A. Transcript evaluation for additional certificates
(endorsements):
C. Sorensen reported that the state plan to have these obtained by the
passage of content area tests failed. Discussion on the institutions
doing this
through transcript evaluation included the staffing, possible charges and
the need for an NIU policy.

B.
Candidates’ dispositions: what are they, how do we measure them,
how do candidates demonstrate them?
This item will be continued on the agenda.

V. New Business
A. 2003-04 CITC Agenda
1. Interpretation of transfer courses: S. Warber
reported that there are articulation agreements with community colleges
for courses at the
300-400 level through department approval and for lower level courses from
4-year colleges. This item will be re-visited if another issue arises.

2. Program presentations to CITC: S. Conklin
reported that this item will remain on the agenda.

3. Contemporary experience: N. Stahl has
sent out a survey. Please refer to COPP report above.

VI. Springfield Report:
C. Sorensen
reported that the Dean’s Summit included discussion of policy issues at
a state level to be addressed by institutions through a single voice.